Sicklemia
Authors: JOSEPH LEVY
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1929)

Article1 July 1929SicklemiaJOSEPH LEVY, M.D.JOSEPH LEVY, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-3-1-47 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe practitioner may be faced with the patient who has recurrent paroxysms of prostration associated with low grade fever and night sweats; the pediatrician may see a child who has attacks of jaundice, growing pains and an enlarged heart; the surgeon may have an operative case whose wound refuses to close or whose abscess continues to drain. While in many people presenting such pictures, the diagnosis of tuberculosis, rheumatic fever, or syphilis usually holds, in others, all the approved criteria may be negative. The patient may then be put through many elaborate laboratory procedures to no avail, whereas a simple...Bibliography1 LEVY J: The Origin and Fate of Sickle Shaped Red Blood Cells. Arch. Path., 1929 (To Be Published). Google Scholar2 HERRICK JB: Peculiar Elongated and Sickle Shaped Red Blood Corpuscles in a Case of Severe Anemia. Arch. Int. Med., 1910, VI, 517. CrossrefGoogle Scholar3 HUCK JG: Sickle Cell Anemia. Bull. Johns Hopkins Hosp., 1923, XXIII, 335. Google Scholar4 JAFFÉ RH: Die Sichelzellenanämie. Arch. f. Path. Anat. u Phys., 1927, CCLXV, 452. CrossrefGoogle Scholar5 SYDENSTRICKER VP: Further Observations on Sickle Cell Anemia, J. A. M. A., 1924, LXXXIII, 12. CrossrefGoogle Scholar6 MULHERINHOUSEAL WARW: Sickle Cell Anemia. Transact. Sect. Ped. Am. Med. Assn., 1924, 77. Google Scholar7 LAWRENCE JS: Elliptical and Sickle Shaped Erythrocytes in Blood of White Persons. J. Clin. Investig., 1927, V., 31. CrossrefGoogle Scholar8 CASTANA V: I Gigantociti e le Anemia Semilunari La Pediatria, 1925, XXXIII, 431. Google Scholar9 EMMEL VE: A Study of the Erythrocytes in a Case of Severe Anemia with Elongated and Sickle Shaped Red Blood Corpuscles. Arch. Int. Med., 1917, XX, 586. CrossrefGoogle Scholar10 HAMILTON JF A Case of Sickle Cell Anemia. U. S. Vet. Bur. Med. Bull. 1926, II, 497. Google Scholar11 STEWART WB: Single Cell Anemia. Am. J. Dis. Child. 1927, XXXIV, 72. CrossrefGoogle Scholar12 MASON VR: Sickle Cell Anemia. J. A. M. A., 1922, LXXIX, 1318. CrossrefGoogle Scholar13 MIYAMOTIKORB KJH: Meniisocytosis (Latent Sickle Cell Anemia) Incidence in St. Louis., South. Med. J., 1927, XX, 912. CrossrefGoogle Scholar14 HAHN EV: Sickle Cell (Drepanocytic) Anemia. Am. J. Med. Sci., 1928, CLXXV, 206. CrossrefGoogle Scholar15 COOLEYLEE TBP: The Sickle Cell Phenomenon. Am. J. Dis. Child., 1926, XXXII, 334. Google Scholar16 SYDENSTRICKERMULHERINHOUSEAL VPWARW: Sickle Cell Anemia. Am. J. Dis. Child., 1923, XXVI, 132. CrossrefGoogle Scholar17 WASHBURN RE: Peculiar Elongated and Sickle Shaped Red Blood Corpuscles in a Case of Severe Anemia. Va. Med., 1911, XV, 490. Google Scholar18 HEINMCCALLATHORNE GERLGW: Sickle Cell Anemia. Am. J. Med. Sci., 1927, CLXXIII, 763. CrossrefGoogle Scholar19 ANDERSON HB: Sickle Cell Anemia. Am. J. Med. Sci., 1926, CLXXI, 641. CrossrefGoogle Scholar20 SYDENSTRICKER VP: Sickle Cell Anemia. South. Med. J., 1924, XVII, 177. CrossrefGoogle Scholar21 RICH AR: Splenic Lesion in Sickle Cell Anemia, Johns Hopkins Hosp. Bull. 1928, XLIII, 398. Google Scholar22 GRAHAM GS: A Case of Sickle Cell Anemia with Necropsy, Arch. Int. Med., 1924, XXXIV, 778. CrossrefGoogle Scholar23 HAHNGILLESPIE EVEB: Sickle Cell Anemia. Report of a Case greatly Improved by Splenectomy. Experimental Study of Sickle Cell Formation. Arch. Int. Med., 1927, XXXIX, 233. CrossrefGoogle Scholar24 BELLKOTTEMITCHELLCOOLEYLEE AJRHAGTBP: Sickle Cell Anemia in Children, Am. J. Dis. Child., 1927, XXXIV, 923. CrossrefGoogle Scholar25 JOSEPHS H: Clinical Aspects of Sickle Cell Anemia. Johns Hopkins Hosp. Bull, 1928, XLIII, 397. Google Scholar26 MINOTMURPHY GRWB: Treatment of Pernicious Anemia by a Special Diet. J. A. M. A., 1926, LXXXVII, 471. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAuthors: JOSEPH LEVY, M.D.Affiliations: New Rochelle Hospital New Rochelle, N. Y. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byGross hematuria in sickle cell trait and sickle cell hemoglobin-C diseaseOCCURRENCE OF SYMPTOMS OF SICKLE CELL DISEASE IN THE ABSENCE OF PERSISTENT ANEMIA*THOMAS W. GREEN, M.D., C. LOCKARD CONLEY, M.D.THE INCIDENCE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SICKLE CELL TRAIT*L. W. DIGGS, M.D., C. F. AHMANN, PH.D., JUANITA BIBB, A.B.Potassium Sulphocyanate: A Note on Its Use for the Painful Crises in Sickle Cell AnemiaEDWARD G. TORRANCE, M.D., TRUMAN G. SCHNABEL, M.D., F.A.C.P. 1 July 1929Volume 3, Issue 1Page: 47-54KeywordsAbscessesFeversResearch laboratoriesRheumatic feverSurgeonsSweatSyphilis ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 July 1929 PDF downloadLoading ...